# \[WARNING\] juliawiki.com is AI generated phishing links and SEO spam, do not use it

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327>\
**Category:** General Usage\
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**Created:** [March 7, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327 "2024-03-07T21:34:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clemapfel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/clemapfel/32/32261_2.png) [@Clemapfel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Clemapfel)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327/1 "2024-03-07T21:34:51Z")

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In October 2023 a new website `juliawiki.com` was registered, since then it has had thousands of articles added which are clearly generated by AI, posted by bot accounts. If you look at the log of recently created articles, their themes vary widely and often have nothing to do with Julia, but they do often post links to other, less than savory sites advertising crypto or phishing links.

https:/ /www.juliawiki.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

(remove the space after the first slash to make the link active)

Someone is clearly generating this entire site using ChatGPT, with no care as to accuracy or relevance, a lot of articles are in indonesian, but the whois says it is hosted in toronto, canada, though it is hosted by cloudfare with the owners name redacted. My best theory is that it is used to generate SEO by hosting links to other sites, there may potentially be more wikis like this for other languages, if you know of one let me know.

Either way, do not use this site, and **advocate for it being taken down or warned against by JuliaComputing** , it is at best useless and spreads misinformation, and at worst is actively dangerous and may contain harmful links or perform illegal data harvesting of its users.

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**Author:** ![jar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jar1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jar1)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327/2 "2024-03-07T21:40:33Z")

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Consider removing the URL from your post to avoid promoting its search ranking.

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**Author:** ![Clemapfel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/clemapfel/32/32261_2.png) [@Clemapfel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Clemapfel)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327/3 "2024-03-07T21:43:54Z")

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thank you, you are right, I edited it

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327/4 "2024-03-08T11:56:18Z")

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Previous threads:

- [What's the JuliaWiki?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-the-juliawiki/109335)
- [QA for Wiki](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/qa-for-wiki/110364)

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**Author:** ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-juliawiki-com-is-ai-generated-phishing-links-and-seo-spam-do-not-use-it/111327/5 "2024-03-08T12:37:59Z")

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Yes, mostly bad, occasionally ok by accident:

www.juliawiki .com/wiki/Algorithm\_Optimization

> ## References
> 
> [1] A. Example and B. Demo, “Efficient algorithms for Julia programming,” Journal of Julia Development, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45-68, 2022.

“Journal of Julia Development”, vol. 12, I wish…

At least we have:  
www.juliawiki. com/wiki/Clippy

> **clippy** is a helpful, intelligent, capable assistant designed specifically for the Julia programming language. […]

and:  
www.juliawiki. com/wiki/Brainfuck-to-Julia\_Compiler

and:  
www.juliawiki. com/wiki/Books\_about\_Julia

> 1. “Julia Programming for Beginners” by John Doe […]
> 
> 2. “Mastering Julia: Advanced Techniques for High-Performance Computing” by Jane Smith […]

In rare cases good info, maybe (I at least learnt of something existing):  
juliawiki .com/wiki/COBYLA\_algorithm

> [@Clemapfel](#):
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> there may potentially be more wikis like this for other languages, if you know of one let me know.

There are for sure, and at least there is e.g. (juliasos patterned after) pythonsos:

> [@What's the JuliaWiki?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-the-juliawiki/109335/15):
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> I suspected and noticed, it’s a copy of the concept, and even the full legal info: https://www.pythonsos .com/legal/ Accuracy of Information: PythonSOS is an online platform dedicated to assisting Python developers For Julia, it still mentions Python, only substituting to JuliaSOS. At first I was confused, to help Python users to migrate, or use together… ?! At least there they spell syntax with a y. I suppose the good thing is that Julia is getting popular, noticed.